Post #3816828

2026-07-14 11:00 UTC

@Saorsa@neondystopia.world @rl_dane@polymaths.social @squirtle@neondystopia.world The rc(8) is quite simple and well documented: - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/rc-scripting/ - https://man.freebsd.org/rc.d/8 But also new FreeBSD rcd(8) service manager daemon is in the works: - https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2026-June/006427.html Think of rcd(8) as launchd(8) or systemd(1) FreeBSD altarnative - w/o issues of both of them. ... and that new rcd(8) does not rewrite anything - it still uses the same existing rc(8) infra - so You can to things 'today way' and new rcd(8) way ... best of both worlds.

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@squirtle@neondystopia.world 2026-07-14 14:24

@vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe @Saorsa@neondystopia.world@neondystopia.world @rl_dane@polymaths.social I've talked to Saorsa before and if I remember correctly his main issue with the init that unlike Linux with a typical systemd setup he had to write init scripts on FreeBSD which wasn't something that he had to do on Linux. Personally I do think that rc.d is one of the nicer inits

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@Saorsa@neondystopia.world 2026-07-15 10:13

May be worth revisiting FreeBSD then in the future. Been planning on using a *BSD Workstation and keeping Linux on a Steam Deck or Steam Machine as a gaming appliance. NixBSD should shape up to be interesting if development holds up. @vermaden@mastodon.bsd.cafe @rl_dane@polymaths.social @squirtle@neondystopia.world@neondystopia.world

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